The sound of lyres, the flower-crown’d goblet’s flow.

—Behold again!—high hearts make nobler offerings now!

LXXI.

The stately fane is reach’d—and at its gate

The warriors pause. On life’s tumultuous tide

A stillness falls, while he whom regal state

Hath mark’d from all, to be more sternly tried

By suffering, speaks: each ruder voice hath died,

While his implores forgiveness!—“If there be

One midst your throngs, my people! whom, in pride